I have been on the forum for awhile now and I am planning on building a new computer for myself in the spring. I want to get a head start on my PC parts list though so I can get the parts when I sell my current computer. My brother is buying it from me in the spring.
Anyways, I have a budget around $1000. There is some wiggle room. I want good parts.
I would love to hear some build ideas! I need an AC WiFi card and an SSD is a must. I can't stress this enough. It would be good to have 16 GB of RAM. I use some modded shaders on some games and I need the extra ram. I play several games on Steam that have some graphics intensive requirements and I am now playing Battlefront on Ultra settings with my current system, which has been a total dream :)
My current system that I am selling has the following specs: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler MSI Z97-GD65 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Kingston Fury Red Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Asus PCE-AC68 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter BOSE® 354495-1100 Companion 2 Multimedia Speaker System Series 3
It would be great to get a system that meets or exceeds the performance of my current system. It's a tall order, but I'm sure it is possible. I would love to get the case to be as small as possible.
Really though there's no reason to replace that rig, if that wasn't part of your thousand dollar budget just get a Fury and either a 4k free-sync display or a 1440p 144hz free-sync display
I don't think you understand what I am looking for. I am selling my computer to my brother because he needs a workhorse/gaming computer for his editing and gaming needs. I like my brother a lot and I want to cut him a deal.
I would like to build another good looking computer. For me, hardware is important, but the case makes the wow factor. I have had so many people stare at my computer in wonder because of my NZXT H440 case. They were impressed with its performance, but they were more impressed with its looks. I like things to work well and look good.
Function before Form Always. You could always just buy the nicer case later.
I wouldn't go FM2+ for a thousand dollar budget, the liquid cooler is unnecessary for the most part
Either way you'd want to look more at the Xeon 1231v3 which is basically an i7 for cheaper with no iGPU, kinda like in the build I listed, you'd end up with more performance and a large SSD
and the SSDnow series from kingston has bait and switch hardware that made newer models slower than review models
Trowing a 390 or GTX970 in a rig with a Athlon 860K cpu does not make that much sense. Because those gpu´s will get bottlenecked by the cpu in allot of cpu demending games, especialy at 1080p. Also the 860K will be no where near the performance of your current 4690K.
also for $1000,- you could easaly build something with a skylake i5.
looks good to me. The only thing you need to be aware of is that those Xeon´s are not overclockable, but on the otherhand they are great value for money, since they are basicly a locked i7 without an igpu, in the case of the 1231-V3 and 1241-V3.
PSU is a bit overkill, because a decent 650W would also be totaly fine for a setup like that. But ofc it never hurts.
I don't think you are understanding my goals... I want something that looks sweet, runs well, and it in my budget. I'm not looking for the next PC Mark king.
I am only using the SSD for the OS. I will use the rest of the drive space for documents, but the 1 TB drive will be for my games and large movie files.